Saturday, August 31, 2013

HOOK & CHAIN




I kiss 
A human face 
but you've lost your humanity...
Our story 
Rolls and bends
I refuse to believe 
"The End"






















You've made it clear
I'm not who you want 
before the empty 
I LOVE YOU'S. 

You waste 
so much of my time
Yet it's you 
I refuse to lose...

I hope you find 
your paradise
In this world 
of foolish eyes. 

When palms sway 
and it's a beautiful day
You'll think of my cloud;
The silver around the gray. 

My mind's deep
Universe of love
Proof of me 
For you is not enough.
I'm tangible
Feel the push and shove
I'm here like your precious
God above...

I'd drain
Blood from my veins
To keep you from the pain...
You'd never 
do the same
But I keep playing your games.

You beckon me
Religiously
Your phone rings
And intuitively 
I know you have to go...

You pull me in
Just to stop the flow
I reject the truth
Of what I know.

You can travel
around the world
Gaze up at a millions moons...

You won't
Find another unique
Just a cast of perfect cartoons.

If perfection is what you seek
If smiley faced love
makes you weak
Then I can surely
Never compete

If two hearts 
aren't allowed
To cry

Then how could we
reach higher than the sky?

There must be room to grow
His muscles and Money
Is only a show...

I am 

EVERY

DAY...

Every Hour

Every
Night

Butterflies in the chest
While screaming in a fight.


Your fantasy isn't love
You'll never get there
As long as you turn 
Away without a care


The light is under the door
You refuse to knock
Cowering from the possibility
Crawling on the darkened floor

I embrace
A human disgrace
It hurts
While he whispers no.

You've parked illegally 
on my heart
My common sense
Refuses to call a tow.

Hook and chain
Drag him away
Hook and chain
This is my parking space
Today.

Monday, August 26, 2013

Is Miley Cyrus "ACTING BLACK?"



Back in the nineties, every morning, I'd arrive to the gates of my private school in the passengers side of my mother's Volvo. What's so special about this? Well next to those gates read the words, "Brooklandville Plantation."
That's right, my Black parents sent me to a plantation to get the White mans education. 
LOL I'M JOKING ABOUT THE WHITE MAN PART. I just had to! Plus it rhymed! 
But my parents were indeed Black and my school was once a working plantation; Full of Black slaves and White racists on horseback. Talk about a mind fuck!
It was a predominantly White, Episcopal private school. The first day of classes, I'd always be ecstatic to see a new BROWN FACE in the classroom. (Which was seldom)
I did get a decent education there. (For the tuition my parents paid, I better had)
What the fuck does this have to do with Miley Cyrus? OK I AM GETTING THERE, KEEP READING!

So growing up in a predominantly White, Episcopal private school and then a predominantly White public high school, naturally, most of my friends were White. It just so happened that a lot of them liked Dave Mathews Band, and in some cases, Marilyn Manson. I couldn't help it if they liked snow boarding, lacrosse, Dawson's Creek and all things...well... White! (Again, I am joking. I don't stereotype...but...ummm...yea THEY DID LIKE ALL THESE THINGS AND SO DID I) To me, they didn't like these things because they were White, they liked these things because they brought them joy. And I was Black, or so it appeared as such in the mirror, and I liked these things too.
In high school, there were a few more brown faces, However, they didn't take a liking to my love of Fiona Apple and summers in the mountains. I was called an "OREO" on the second week of school. Black on the outside, White on the inside.  I wore a Kuffi on my locks but apparently I still wasn't "BLACK ENOUGH" for them. According to them, I didn't speak ghetto enough. I didn't use Ebonics. From their perspective, I wanted to BE White. I didn't fit into what they deemed was BLACK, Yet the White students simply saw me as a cool ass dude. They didn't see my color. My Black classmates, did. 
Flash forward to Miley Cyrus "Twerking" on YouTube and wearing a gold grill in her "WE CAN'T STOP" video. What was the initial reaction to her new found ratchet behavior? 
"SHE'S TRYING TO BE BLACK! DOES SHE KNOW SHE'S WHITE?!" 
Who did this primarily come from?
Blacks.

These are the same people who no doubt said Tiger Woods thinks he is White because he enjoys White vagina and hangs out at the Country Club. These are the same people who defend President Barack Obama when people say he's not "BLACK ENOUGH" or coin him the infamous "OREO" They constantly contradict themselves and never have a point in their madness. Let's be clear, I am not talking about ALL BLACKS when it comes to these judgments, I am talking about the surprisingly large population of Blacks who think like this. These CERTAIN Blacks, admit that Blacks do not all speak ghetto, yet they hold Miley Cyrus to a "White Standard."
WHAT IS THIS WHITE STANDARD?
Is her father the "WHITE STANDARD?" 
Is his "Achy Breaky Heart" worthy of a National Association for the Advancement of White People Image Award?
Is this what Whites are suppose to be?
What is "Trying to be Black?" 
Did Black people invent ratchet behavior?
Were Black people responsible for Twerking? They may have invented the dance, but plenty of White people invented things that Black people enjoy; Such as Jumping Jacks, skateboarding (See Lil Wayne) Ring around the Rosey and more. 
If Blacks are a diverse group of people who can not be defined by dance moves, images in the media and vernacular, then why are we equating everything negative to "BEING BLACK?" 
Sure Miley does Molly and Black rappers are the main ones who made the shit popular, but how many White celebrities have died of drug overdoses? Didn't THE BEATLES sing about LSD? 
Blacks aren't the only people doing drugs. Doing drugs doesn't mean one is trying to be Black and for Blacks to say that bullshit is a slap in the face to the march on Washington in which we are currently commemorating. Rev. Dr Martin Luther King Jr. would probably say, "THIS AINT GOT SHIT TO DO WITH RACE! AND EVERY THING TO DO WITH MILEY NOT HAVING ANY HOME TRAINING!" 
KING GIVES MILEY CYRUS A PROPER SCOLDING!
Well I am sure he would put it more eloquently than that. 
Britney and her ratchet girls
My point is that, people have made Miley's boney gyrating ass into a race issue. She may have stolen the swag of some of her predecessors like Britney Spears, Madonna, Gwen Stefani and more....(ALL WHITE BITCHES) but she didn't try to steal the skin color of some one else.

Many people of all races have said she has NOTHING to twerk. But I bet if she got ass injections they would be saying, "LOOK, SHE INFLATED HER ASS, SHE'S TRYING TO BE BLACK! SHE'S TRYING TO BE NICKI MINAJ!" Last time I checked, she was still White. Last time I checked, she said she knows she is White on Twitter. Last time I checked, Being White does not come with a rule book. Last time I checked, Twerking never came with a sign that read, "BLACKS ONLY."
TAKE A SEAT HATERS.
I love "CAN'T STOP" and I love her bravery, but I despise her trend following. There's nothing original about what she's doing and it does seem forced to me. What I won't do, is tell her that she can't do it though. She's in her twenties, a grown woman and able to do what makes her happy creatively. (Even though she's being handled and probably doesn't make any of her own "Creative" decisions) I believe she grew up listening to HIP HOP and Disney was a lie. I don't think she's pretending to love the culture, but I do think she is TRYING TOO HARD to be edgy. It does not seem organic. It seemed organic for Gwen Stefani to scream out, "I AINT NO HOLLA BACK GIRL!" plus do a two step next to the rapper Eve. 
It seemed natural for Madonna to VOGUE and the gays didn't say, "SHE THINKS SHE'S A GAY MAN! OFF WITH HER HEAD!" 



















But it doesn't seem natural for Miley to ATTEMPT to twerk in latex panties while making awkward stank faces for the cameras. However, it does seem ridiculous that Blacks are screaming about her wanting to be a BLACK WOMAN; Claiming Hannah Montana is ripping them off and calling for her head. Yes I believe Miley loves HIP HOP, she wishes she could twerk, not because she wants to be a Black woman, but because she respects the dance. I don't think all of her antics are necessary or genuine. I think most of it has to do with following the trend of being "URBAN" (Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Justin Timberlake, Ke$ha) creating shock value to sell records and breaking her Disney persona. Why not just come out with this song, twerk with a little more clothes on *COUGH* BUTT PADDING *COUGH* and actually hire a choreographer? Why not just do a song with a hip hop beat without all of the spectacle-making? 
Thus the music industry of 2013. It's all about creating BUZZ...
Miley should be eating the sandwich that the Black guy ate in her video

All about the shock value...The RACY IMAGES before showcasing any relevant talent which most don't even have these days. Ke$ha? She can't sing or dance yet she's a SUPERSTAR. Anyone can cover themselves in glitter and semen...I DIGRESS.

In conclusion, I wish Black people would stop making everything into an US verses THEM. I've been accused of that in my earlier blogs, but let's face it, institutional racism does exist. (SEE EARLIER BLOGS)
I wish we could just create music and forget about the colors behind it. White people can have soul just like Blacks can, if not more. Jon B can serenade them just like Joe can. Toni Braxton can sing about a Spanish Guitar and J Lo can sing about being from "The Block" (JUST DON'T CALL ANYONE A NIGGA AGAIN) Darius Rucker's Black bald ass can sing Country while Miley Cyrus attempts to Twerk it on a SOUL SINGING WHITE MAN NAMED ROBIN THICKE. It's a colorful world with many voices, Let them mix and enjoy the many interpretations. 


Tuesday, August 20, 2013

The Butler: Oppressed for Oscars

Oprah Winfrey is the first Black Billionaire. She's notable in the "mainstream" for changing the lives of White middle aged women with self-help programming, but to Black people, she's most known for...

YOU TOLL HARPO TO BEAT ME!!!

























And that is who she will always be to Black people. That is where they want her, and that is where Oprah chooses to stay FOR Black people to accept her. Oprah has performed in several movies, including The Color Purple, Beloved, and The Butler. In all of her films, she appears as a struggling Black woman with limited education. She gets all oppressed for Hollywood because after all, Hollywood caters to the image that IT HAS LAID OUT for the Black demographic; that WE need saving. The machine has provided it's Manchurian Candidates who are the paid-for leaders of Black entertainment.

Lee Daniels...

and worse...

...Tyler Perry.

What people do not understand, is that Spike Lee has been a witness to the machine which blocked his funding and shut him down because he did not follow the PROTOCOL that had long been established. Yes, the man is a bit jealous of these new age directorial millionaires, but in essence, he has watched souls get sold like Africans on the auction block, like a Minstrel Show ironically hailed as progress because the director happens to be Black.

Halle being made to "Feel Good" by the racist White savior
Blacks have graced the covers of magazines, they've become a Bond Girl and they've rode a racist White penis on the big screen for the sake of becoming mainstream. Super-sized Black areola's and a White man who makes her "Feel Good" has become the standard of so-called success for Black actresses. (Enter Keri Washington and a White President) The loose Black woman who walks like a lioness but sucks dick like a whore, has long been iconic; way before Dorothy Dandridge had an identity crisis with Carmen Jones. Protocol had been established when Dandridge let her PIMP European boyfriend, I mean, White director, sexually demean her. We think because King Kong's got nothing on Denzel Washington that we have MADE IT. But when the applause is over, when the nameless faces are still nameless for a cause, the Black actor has still received an award from White people for being uncivilized, ignorant and subservient.

Daniels happy to have sold out for a statue of a White man
The desperation for White acceptance is pitiful among the so-called Black Hollywood elite. These Black directors/producers have wet dreams over Oscars and nightmares over a mere NAACP Image Award. Blacks care as much about the NAACP as they care about who the owners are of Black Entertainment Television, they simply don't give a fuck. The NAACP has celebrated such films as FLIGHT and RED TAILS; stories of Black bravery that were seen as an abomination by major Hollywood.
Did you actually think the Precious Academy would even consider a film like Red Tails?

Daniels and Perry do their bidding. They think with their money-hungry morning wood which shamefully arouses the nigger mentality: When the White man gives applause, then you must have done well.
The nigger performs his magic show for the White man while pretending to cater to a neglected tambourine market.

Tyler and Oprah put their names on it to show their allegiance...

And Monique accepts her award for thinking she can't get AIDS if she never fucks in the butt...
FOR THIS...

YOU GET THIS.
It is no coincidence that the fat Black woman is the heroin of the Black community. From Hattie McDaniel to Monique to Oprah, to Octavia Spencer, these women have strategically been reborn, over and over again for the mental programming of Blacks. Stay with me here.

What has changed since then???
Who got the first Oscar? A fat Black woman who took care of white babies and said YES SIR to her White owners, I mean bosses. The Help received Oscars left and right because fat Black women kept Hattie McDaniel's legacy alive. Oh the Black people lined up at the theater, they rocked back and forth with their church fans in hand in solemn recognition that we have been oppressed, but we have overcome. But how could we have made it if our image is still in the slave ship? How have we gained ownership in Hollywood while our directors have million dollar mansions and brown "HELP" clean their toilets with close-up shots of their defeat?

It took a White man to produce and direct a film like RED TAILS because the Black producers were too busy brainstorming on how to get the next token Oscar.

And what they came up with...

The Butler. 

Oprah can make all of the billions she wants to but in the intermission of her board meetings at Harpo, she becomes a slave, literally. A tree was whipped into her back in BELOVED and now in The Butler, she's most proud of her husbands rise to glory as he folds White rich people's napkins. Oprah may tell White people what to do in the boardroom, but all is even when they refuse to let a nigger look at an expensive purse. It's no coincidence this scandal was followed by a butler husband in a film that will surely win her an Oscar.

The underlying message:

You may make money like the white boys club

But you're still a nigger. Now dance for us and we will give you a treat.

Now that Oprah has teamed up with Tyler Perry, the biggest sellout in Black history, on her bullshit network, it is almost a sure thing that Oprah will reap the benefits of toasting to the oppressed life in her new film.

The powers that be want to see her get whipped, they want to see her sexualized, demoralized and brought down to size.

Why aren't Black people tired of the same ole hymns? The same ole negro spirituals, waiting for the chariot to take us home when we now have such high positions and no reason to remind ourselves of who we once were. But let's face it, Black people love to see themselves as victims.

We united for Trayvon Martin because we love crying wolf, coming together against the racist boogey men while choosing to be ignorant of the drugs that were placed in our communities by the CIA. We miss the bigger picture, the larger scandals...Such as the thug image and paranoia of the Black man that was placed in Hollywood by the Black puppets. The Boys in the Hood need to stay there. Thanks John Singleton.

Anderson and the oppressed Black victims engage in a pity party
Our peripheral vision has been extinguished. We are bombarded by Anderson Cooper who speaks of White privilege on CNN. The distraction keeps us up in arms over people, places and things whose only connection to race is the ignorance of the people who buy into false flags of racism. While the flags wave above our heads, the system takes another Black man to prison and another Black actress signs her name on the dotted line.

We love the helpless women in the Tyler Perry films who just keep getting violated by the evil Black no-good man. Everything bad in the world happens to us because of our skin color and Black women can never be treated right by a dark skin Black man. Just ask Tyler Perry.

We believe, that the only way for us to be accepted, to be celebrated, to be rewarded, is to show the world the shackles that we helped to put on.

Barack Obama is Black, but Fitz is White, and it is he who Black women want to fuck. They live vicariously through Olivia Pope, whose Black pussy is oppressed by the most powerful White man in the world.
You see, we are conditioned to think of the White man as powerful and to think of Obama as being a nice smiling negro who charmed his way into the White House. We only put Black Presidents on the screen when the world is about to end. When the White House is on fire or being engulfed by a tidal wave. Look at Hollywood and tell me that I'm lying. From Danny Glover to Jamie Foxx....

In conclusion, fuck the Oscars.

To Hell with another butler, nanny or Black dick sucking harlot who can't get enough of the White mans protein shake.

Why are we wasting our efforts on an academy of Johns?

Why do we keep putting on aprons when there are more dynamic wardrobes to wear?

Who are we? How did we get BACK here?

Hattie McDaniel to Octavia Spencer

Dorothy Dandridge to Halle Berry

Flip Wilson to Tyler Perry

Richard Roundtree to Denzel Washington


But not for Losing Isaiah
And certainly not for Glory or Malcolm X







Tuesday, July 23, 2013

FUCK THE ROYAL BABY!



Every 4.2 seconds, a new baby is born in the world. Unfortunately, the world doesn't seem to care about any of these babies, except for one. THE ROYAL BABY!
World media descend on BREAKING BABY NEWS
CNN, FOX NEWS, MSNBC, US WEEKLY, OK MAGAZINE.....The royal baby coverage goes on and on as if another plane crashed into a skyscraper. Twitter is a buzz and my Facebook feed has been LOADED with royal baby statuses, as crowds gather nationwide for BABY WATCHING PARTIES.

It's always wonderful when a fresh life is brought into the world, (Even though earth is grossly overpopulated and our natural resources are dwindling) but why are we as Americans so invested in British royalty?


On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved and the colonies were finally FREE of Britain's control. We were independent and wanted NOTHING to do with England. (However us Negroes wanted nothing to do with the slave drivers who ran the colonies, but that's another blog)

In a strange twist, in 2013, Americans seem to have reattached themselves to England. They seem to be obsessed and almost envious of the royal structure. They celebrate the royal baby as if it is their long lost child for which they want back.

The beautiful Duchess of Bullshit, Kate Middleton, is a worldwide celebrity and probably couldn't tell you one thing about foreign policy or the British economy. Her economy will never be in question, however, because the British peasants will continue to put their tax dollars into her designer clothes and the stern-faced guards at Buckingham Palace.

But the truth is, this is not JUST about British royalty, this newborn baby has been born into one of the most powerful oligarchies in the worlds history. Behind the smoke is a system of oligarchies who've been born into wealth and indoctrinated into corruption. This baby represents the continuation of the Gods among Men, the secret governing power which has been called The Illuminati among other things. With ties to the Bush family, the Rockefeller's and the Rothschild's, this baby will take it's place on the throne of oppression.

What I find fascinating, is that the world is so willing to give away it's power to those who simply deem themselves demigods. That is after all how the British royal tradition began, when they used to have actual political power. They claimed they were sent by God. They had self-proclaimed divine right to kill and torture people only to be hand-fed grapes by their slaves afterwards.
British taxpayers eat your heart out. Official royal business

Flash forward to the twenty-first century, and they have manipulated the worlds economy. Afterwards, WE, the 1%, feed them grapes in the form of taxes. The British deliver their hard-earned money to the Parliament so that Kate Middleton can rock the most exclusive high fashions. She will no doubt vacation in California and spend her taxpayer provided money in another country. It costs the United Kingdom (UK) taxpayers about 40 million to maintain the British monarchy and to keep Queen POWER TRIP Elizabeth II on the throne. Of course, you have to pencil in the added cost of royal security which is estimated at 50 million. The total cost of the British monarchy is about 90 million. (This cost is offset by the profits from the Crown’s commercial venture—the Crown Estate, which returns its net income to Her Majesty’s (HM) Treasury). 

Talk about a silver spoon. There's an auto mechanic in England who gets dirty all day, can never afford a real vacation, but has to hand over his money to an already WEALTHY monarchy. 


Today, we worship these mere mortals like the demigods which they believe they are. Look at the Pope, exalted for doing nothing whatsoever. I chuckle as humble peasants gather by the millions to get a glimpse of the Pope Mobile and hear his old ass speak. He's often draped in gold and lives far removed from the people, as he resides in luxuries of which most are unable.

You see royalty comes in many forms in this world. They are all connected. There are Presidents, Popes, Monarchies, Organizations and Corporations who together pull the strings. Why are we allowing them to? Or better yet, Why do we roll out the red carpets for them and appease them? We continuously hand over the money, that was never ours in the first place, to THEM. In the midst of all of their ownership, we still have the audacity to believe that we run our own lives. We actually think that we own our houses or that we have made life's biggest decisions all on our own; Without the aid of the subliminal sell spell.

And while you were sleeping...

The BANKS own you and everyone else. The birth of this baby British boy means it is not going to stop any time soon.
Why do we support the major corporations by buying designer clothes and watching their so-called News programs? Why do we treat the monarchies as if they have any effect on our working class American livelihood? Why are we so complacent while they rape the entire world of it's resources and wealth. They are the 1% of the world yet our great numbers sit like deer in headlights, bewildered at their power and brainwashed. We want to be them, but we never will. We live our lives vicariously through them. Almost every girl, (besides the lesbians and including gay men) Grew up wanting their knight in shining armor.

We never once thought, WHY DO I FANTASIZE ABOUT KISSING A PRINCE? Well, no wonder, DISNEY rammed that WHITE prince into your brain. This subliminal message that we are all given as children is that White is good. White is power. But more importantly, the WHITE MALE is good and shall be exalted. As children we are hooked on to the matrix of materialism. We learn that wealth is good. Wealth is power. Wealth is sexy. Wealth is what you need to aspire to. A wealthy man is what you need. Royalty is what is good. And if you obsess over wealth, you will be too busy to notice the shackles around your ankles. If you are too obsessed with becoming that Prince or the hand he holds, then you will buy into whatever the corporations tell you, because after all, they are leading you to wealth. You will be COMMITTED to the corporations, you'll stay dedicated to your job because that mirage of a promotion, that corporate latter is what keeps you droning along.

So I ask again, why are we so impressed with a royal baby who will never have to work in his life? What's more impressive? A sub-Saharan African baby born into nothing who becomes the wealthiest person alive? (Which is not allowed to happen) Or a British baby boy, born into an oligarchy who becomes what they already were predetermined to be? Why do we not take pride in each other? There is power in numbers and solidarity. Yet we keep the television running and the books closed.

The distractions continue on the six o'clock news. A naked Geraldo Rivera, musicians who have chosen to boycott Florida, stories of hostility between the races while the POLICE STATE looms in America. While the checkpoints increase. While the airports start to resemble concentration camps. While the government eavesdrops on our emails and monitors our clicks online. While more and more people are thrown in the prisons as more petty laws are unveiled. While the chosen ones rise and the pure of heart are thrown to the vultures. Look around you. All eyes are fixed on screens. They are all media dope fiends. Hooked on their lies and never asking why the planes flew low in the sky.

This royal baby is not our salvation. The fact that he's in another country doesn't even matter when you think about the power system of the world. But let's focus on creating a better, JUST, peaceful world for our own children, instead of reinstating a better world for the royal babies.

The crowned baby cries, shits his diaper and keeps Kate up all hours of the night. It is not divine. It's no different than your baby. The only difference, is that it's parents do not have to worry about saving up for its college education. He won't have to worry about not being good enough for anything, because he will always be entitled. Unlike your baby, he is privileged. He is in a palace and you are in a two bedroom apartment or a home of which you can barely make the mortgage payments on. He will never get a poor education based on his location. He will never have a temper tantrum like your child, because he will get everything he wants. He will be exalted while your friends will pretend to want to hold your baby.

The royal baby is here, and the world is breastfeeding it.


Sunday, July 21, 2013

BLACKS VERSES THE POLICE




Her smile would light up any room she walked into. She was a promising, eight-teen year old honors student at Wiley, College; an historically Black University in Marshall, Texas. She'd never been to detention in grade school. She graduated high school early and came from a loving, stable, but strict household. 

Gabriella Calhoun, was at the wrong place at the wrong time. She was also the wrong race, at the wrong time. While eating at Denny's in Bloomington, Illinois, with her friends one night, a fight broke out in the parking lot between two teenage girls. Denny's employees asked her party if they were involved in the fight outside, even though it was obvious that they were INSIDE and not involved. Denny's asked her table to leave, even after the group denied they were apart of the fight or knew anyone involved. They didn't ask the White patrons to leave. 


Police arrived at Denny's to serve and protect
As the cops tried to clear Denny’s, they again approached Gabriella’s table. A close male friend of hers AGAIN told the cops they were not involved in the ratchet behavior. The cops grabbed the young man and escorted him out of Denny’s. Gabriella followed them and grabbed his side, (like any concerned friend would do after seeing police take their innocent friend away.) As she exited the restaurant, she felt a grip on her neck and arm. She claims that out of reaction, she tried to pull away. (As would be anyone's reaction to an unknown, uncalled for physical intrusion on ones body)

According to her friends, Gabriella was hit in the face with a night stick by a female officer and was knocked unconscious. When Gabriella finally gained consciousness, the Wiley College Student said, “I awoke spitting my teeth out on the ground.”
Gabriella then stated, “When I came to, the officer begin to choke me again. When I was finally able to talk, I asked the officer to please let me go because I have asthma, but she [the officer], said, ‘I don’t care if you have asthma. You were hitting my officer.’”
And it wasn't over yet. Gabriella's continued,
“Afterward, the officer kept saying over and over again, ‘how was your party’ as she held my face to the ground.”
Keep in mind that the police still assumed these innocent young people were involved in the ratchet behavior, no matter what they told them. They assumed that because two Black women were in the parking lot throwing bows, that THESE Blacks must have came from that same ghetto party. All Black people know each other huh? I digress. Back to the story. 
What has changed?

Then the female cop lifted the petite honor student off of the ground, at which point her breasts were exposed. It turned out that the tube top shirt she was wearing had rolled down. She asked the officer if she could please pull up her shirt, but the officer told her to do it herself. She then walked Gabriella all the way from the front of the Denny’s to the back where the cop cars were. The entire restaurant was keenly aware of a young topless woman who was in physical pain and overcome with humiliation. 
Bloomington, Illinois police are sticking to their story of an unruly woman who posed so much of a threat to the officers, they she deserved to get beat unconscious. They claim to have video footage of the event but have yet to release it. I wonder if Denny's had surveillance video that they can offer? I assume that Denny's would only corroborate anything that the police claim, since they also assumed these academics were hoodrats and thugs.

A young woman with a bright future arrived at a restaurant for a meal, but she left in handcuffs with an uncertain future. She now faces felony aggravated battery and two misdemeanors. The life she had been working for, now potentially GONE. We can stand behind the Martin family, but let's not forget the other stories. This is police brutality at its worst. 

We need to demand that the media cover stories like this. This is just one of the many situations going on in America, the home of the FREE, where the innocent are brutalized by the system. Marissa Alexander, a Black woman who fired a warning shot in the air as her abusive boyfriend attacked her, well, she is now serving twenty years. George Zimmerman continues to binge on doughnuts and laugh with his brother. Enough is enough. It has hit the fan. Let's not simply march for Trayvon, let's march for the millions of us who are wrongfully accused, brutalized, profiled and disenfranchised by bias laws and a prejudice judicial system. 

The case of Gabriella Calhoun is clearly a result of racial profiling by the police as well as by the restaurant. Why were White patrons not asked to leave? Why is it that our system is set up in a way where police are presumed right and who ever gets beat upside the head is wrong? 

Why is it that so many stories like this never make the news? Why are we allowing for upstanding citizens to infiltrate our already overcrowded prison system?

Does this young woman, who simply wanted a bite to eat and quality time with her friends, really need to go to prison? Would she have gotten questioned by police had she been a White female?

If you believe race does not play a role here, or in other instances like STOP AND FRISK in New York, then it's time to wake up and smell the injustice.

Enough is enough America! 

I remember riding to Atlantic City with a group of male friends. We were minding our own business when a cop decided to pull us over. It was no shock or surprise to me because I was used to being guilty of driving while Black. But this time, I was a bit confused since my friend was driving, and he was White. 

For some odd reason, after asking for his license and registration, he then proceeds to order me and the other people of color out of the car. Instead of dealing with the DRIVER who he claimed was "speeding," he thought it more pertinent to pull us one-by-one into the highway and ask us questions. 
One question was shocking to me, "How do you all know the driver?" "Why are you with him?" 

He questioned us with judgment as if a group of minorities could not possibly hangout with a White man. Were we holding him at gunpoint and making him drive us to Atlantic City so we could rob the casinos and spill a 40 to our homies memories? 

The cop gave us looks of disgust while his crying baby was in the back of his police car. Is it normal practice to have your infant ride in the back of your patrol car while you are on the clock? Surely we were the bad people while he sped one hundred miles per hour to catch criminals with a baby in the back. I digress. 

Obviously, we were the more guilty than a speeding White man. It seemed as if my friend could have been drenched in vodka with cocaine powder on his nose and officer Friendly still would have asked me, "Why are you with him?" Just like Zimmerman asked Trayvon, "What are you doing around here?!" 

This is just one story of mine, there are many more. Many stories of belligerent security officers who followed me around department stores when I had a wallet full of MY OWN MONEY. There have been plenty of police cars which have followed behind me. They've read my license plate, no doubt hoping something would come up. 

Being Black in America is not as bad as it used to be, but it surely is not a walk in the park. The only difference between now and the Jim Crow era, is that we have laws to protect our equality. However racism hasn't gone anywhere. Prejudice is still there. A Black President does not negate racial profiling and laws like STAND YOUR GROUND which imply that only Whites can use it as a defense. We are still not equal, we have not overcome when STOP AND FISK programs are used as subliminal methods to incarcerate people of color, and ONLY people of color in New York. 


Stop and Frisk in New York


The police have too much power. The media is far too deep in the pockets of other interests to report what needs to be reported. The judicial system assumes guilt before innocence in most minority cases; while the prison system leeches off American taxpayers. If the system had its way, every strong Black man at Morehouse College would be stripped of his bow tie and given an orange jump suit. If the system had its way, all young Black boys in elementary school would be handed drugs by the government and told to sell it to other minorities. Trust and believe me, they are doing this in a less overt way and have been doing it for decades. They've been systematically fucking with people of color through media, through twisted bias laws, through corrupt police departments and through the manipulation of goods and services to CERTAIN demographics. 
From the CIA, to the Banks to the Prisons...Drugs and Minorities are pawns

Look, I am not the type of person who sees the White man as the monster under the bed, I understand the harm that the Black race has done to itself. Be it Black on Black crime, us selling our own network to Viacom (BET) or our African ancestors who sold other Africans to the Europeans. What I am aware of, is a government that has turned the Black race against itself. What I have observed, is institutional racism in many facets that has more power to fuck people over than it did during segregation. What I can tell you, is that a Black President is merely a facade and many of us unfortunately have become complacent after Oprah gave out free cars. 


Marissa Alexander goes BEHIND bars
Racism is not in the minds of the majority, but it is in the minds of a significant number of people in power. Prejudice, is in a court system that is suppose to be blind. We are in a delicate place right now in America, tensions are high and so far, there haven't been any major riots. Unfortunately, the strong hand continues to bitch slap people of color while it merely fingers the asshole of Whites. Same crime, different punishments. Wrong place at the wrong time verses wrong place but serve no time. CATCH IT. 

We need to do more than pray and march. We need to do more than put Trayvon Martins twelve year old photo on poster board and yell into federal buildings that had nothing to do with the juries decision. We need to look at our laws, we need to look at how they are enforced and WHO is enforcing them and against WHO. 


Casey Anthony went TO the bar
 We need to continue video taping the actions of police because it surely is not illegal to do so. When the police approach you with some mess, get out that cell phone and hit record. The world saw what the boys did to Rodney King, and there is no excuse as to why in 2013, there isn't any footage of the Gabriella Calhoun incident. SERVE AND PROTECT! Please do JUST that! 
I can't imagine bringing another life into this insufferable world. I can't bare to expose my offspring to the injustice. I would be sick to my soul every time my brown-faced son or daughter were to walk out of my house. I appreciate so much more of what my parents did in raising me; How they were able to handle me going out all hours of the night, knowing that my skin could lead to my mistaken identity.

Melissa Alexander and Gabriella Calhoun, two educated Black women who do not deserve to go to prison. They aren't murders, they aren't liars, they aren't thieves. They are just two of the many people of color who the double standard is against. Two of the many Black faces who could read Shakespeare or McMillan, and still not be able to shake the statistic which the system so desperately needs them to be. 








Gabriella Calhoun
Marissa Alexander